There are several dietary supplement recommended for FMS patients. However, only few of them show real positive effect.
Some of those supplements provide exogenous amino acid - tryptophan and Griffonia seed extract being natural source of
5-hydroxytryptophan, as they both are precursors of serotonin, which level is low in FMS.

Alternative medicine interventions are currently being used extensively by rheumatology patients overall, and by FMS patients in
particular. All categories of alternative practices are used more often by FMS patients, compared to others. There are very many practices
of complementary and alternative medicine just to mention some of them:

- Acupuncture & acupressure

- Aromatherapy

- Chiropractic

- Craniosacral therapy

- Energy medicine

- Feng shui

- Hatha yoga nad Yoga

- Hypnosis

- Iridology

- Magnetic healing

- Music therapy

- Pilates

- Reflexology

- Urine therapy

- Water cure

Two-thirds of patients
using alternative medicine practices were concurrently using multiple interventions. Alternative medicine practices are currently
being used by almost all FMS patients. This observation might indicate that traditional medical therapies are inadequate in providing
symptomatic relief to FMS patients.

New FMS Therapy?

Dr Paul St. Amand, endocrinologist, who suffers himself from fibromyalgia, as several memers of his family, investigates impact of
guaifenesin administration on fibromyalgia. Guaifenesin is an ether derivate of guaiacol, medicine used as an expectorant that also has
some muscle relaxing action (guaiphenesin converts into methocarbamol). It is used in many cough preparations.
The theoretical basis for this is supposition (however not confirmed scientifically), that several symptoms in FMS are related to low
energy level of cells due to low level of ATP* in these cells Low ATP level is caused by phosphates deposited in tissues.

Some FMS patients reveal carbohydrate imbalance and low sugar level (hypoglycaemia) and this happens due to the repetitive insulin bursts.
Some strict dietetic measures are recommended.

Dr Amand believes that guaifenesin will help to eliminate excess phosphates through kidneys and would reverse the process that as he
believes lays in the base of fibromyalgia. He formed system of treatment in fibromyalgia so called
guaifenesin protocol,
where besides of administration of guaifenesin is performed total elimination of salicylates.

* ATP - adenosine triphosphate is a nucleoside triphosphate used in cells as a coenzyme, often called the "molecular unit of currency" of
intracellular energy transfer.